Day 29 Podcast: Global Futbol & the Political Imaginary

Amy, Laurent, and Alan discuss the 2018 Men’s World Cup soccer tournament as it approaches its denouement in Russia. Laurent is famously a partisan of the French national team, and he relates the political resonance of his team, both in France and across the globe. Amy confesses her new-found appreciation of both the games on the field and the insights of intellectuals about the sport. Alan raises the inspiring, and yet perhaps troubling, specter of a triumphant Croatia. Futbol as a window through which we view the political imaginary.

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